Yes. If you're the type of play who loves to fight with the king, try the Bongcloud Attack: 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2!
Openings that use the king as a fighting piece
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The Fred defense comes to mind.
Aug 9, 2018
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Depends on how you define 'fighting'. There are plenty of openings with lines involving king moves that aren't castling, examples being in the Caro-Kann, Benko Gambit and Nimzo-Indian. However the king is too far from the action to actually attack anything in the opening
soni777chess wrote:
Depends on how you define 'fighting'. There are plenty of openings with lines involving king moves that aren't castling, examples being in the Caro-Kann, Benko Gambit and Nimzo-Indian. However the king is too far from the action to actually attack anything in the opening
Basically any opening where the king is used to help control the center or any other important area of the board.
sky1983 wrote:
Here is an article about the fighting king: http://www.wilhelmsteinitz.com/Fighting_King.html
And here is a very good game by Wilhelm Steinitz where his King is at the center of the board at the opening
Interesting read. Thank you!
Aug 11, 2018
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Here's a game that Tal played in his first game of his first World Championship match against Botvinnik.
Are there any named openings that use the king as a fighting piece instead of keeping it away from the battle?